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Old 04-09-2022, 01:15 AM   #844
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You wouldn't want that, Jon. Seriously. As we've pointed out before, the stories are not even mildly chronological in their publication order. However, if you want a list of stories in published order, try Wikipedia. For the publication order of the books, collections and chapbooks (and a link to the chronological order), see the Liaden Wiki. Or, if you want a complete(ish) timeline, which I think you would find quite unuseful, try the Timeline on the Wiki.

Beyond that? Start where you like. You could, for example, start with Balance of Trade, which is also the start of the Jethri sequence (now three books, and a fourth coming next year.) It's not dependent on anything else in the Liaden Universe, yet introduces important concepts and they're just really good stories.

Or, if you like a bit of Heyer-esque romance with your Space Opera, try Local Custom, which is actually a really good place to start because it gives you a good background on melanti and some of the intricacies of the Clan system and the overall social dynamics.

For a rip-roaring bit of space opera, start with the first book written and published, Agent of Change. This has the virtue of introducing key characters that will still be very much a part of things by the time you get to book #23, Trader's Leap.

For a bit of YA that becomes mainline later, start with Fledgling, the first of the Theo books.

Intersperse the stories as and when you have a want/need for something a bit shorter. Pretty much all the stories have been in various chapbooks, but they're also collected in the series of Liaden Constellation books which collect the shorter works in manageable chunks.

Really, Jon, we've been down this road before. The key to reading books or stories in the Liaden Universe is to just pick one up and READ IT. (FWIW, the first book sold (Agent of Change) and the first Theo book (Fledgling) are both available free from the Baen Free Library.)
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